Corporate Counsel Associate, Hopscotch Health
3+ days a week in office
Healthcare for rural communities
Open for applications
Healthcare for rural communities
101-200 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform lives in rural communities through accessible and proactive value-based care.
Role
Who you are
- Are results-driven and have ability to focus time/resources against the most important priorities
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to make the complex simple
- Strong business acumen and critical thinking
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Customer-focused service mindset, with a passion for serving patients and providers who make healthcare possible
- Agile, yet thoughtful and can work effectively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Constantly seeking ways to simplify and improve how things are done, bringing a positive attitude to challenges
- Accountable, holding yourself and others to a high standard and seek to support and develop others
- Willing to roll up your sleeves to support the work required and collaborate effectively with people of all backgrounds
- Concise and articulate, drive towards clarity and deliver on your commitments
- Undergraduate degree
- Juris Doctor from accredited law school
- Experience in contracts, risk management strategy, and employment law
- Licensed and in good standing to practice law in one or more jurisdictions in the U.S
- 4-6 years experience in private practice and/or in-house corporate legal department
Desirable
- Experience in healthcare regulation and compliance, privacy, and transactions a plus
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory landscape, including Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, as well as HIPAA, and other data privacy regulations
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Corporate Counsel to join our team at a critical and exciting time for the company
- In this role, you’ll lead the company’s legal function, including managing contracts, ensuring compliance, and supporting the company’s growth and business objectives with expert legal guidance
- This position will report to the Chief Financial Officer
- Provide day-to-day legal advice and support to business leaders on decision-making and risk management
- Draft, review and negotiate a range of important legal documents and contracts, including payer contracts, vendor contracts, service agreements, employment agreements, etc
- Advise business leaders on risk management
- Assist in developing internal policies, training materials, and guidance documents
- Effectively leverage outside counsel for complex issues when required
- Improve company’s inventory of form agreements, including NDAs, service agreements, etc
- Keep business leaders informed about pertinent legal and regulatory developments in the industry
- Ensure compliance with regulations and legal requirements
Our take
Hopscotch Health is a MedTech startup setting its sights on addressing the healthcare needs of rural communities. Alarming statistics from the CDC highlight that individuals in these regions face a significantly higher risk of succumbing to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and strokes.
While the concept of value-based healthcare, a model where healthcare providers are compensated based on patient health outcomes rather than sheer sales and services, is gaining traction and efficacy in urban areas, rural communities continue to lag behind, mirroring the disparities seen in traditional healthcare frameworks.
Despite being in early development, Hopscotch Health's trajectory largely hinges on its ability to establish valuable partnerships with payers, healthcare providers, practitioners, and the communities themselves. Nevertheless, there is ample room for optimism, given the substantial potential within an underserved market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Tim Gronniger
(CEO)Previously spent 7 years at Caravan Health, as a Senior VP, President, then CEO. Prior to that, they were a Chief Value-Based Solutions Officer at Signify Health, a Principal at Piney Brand Strategies. and a Deputy Chief of Staff at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. They also served as a Senior Adviser for Health Care Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council and as Professional Staff as the US House of Representatives.
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